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Quotes About Sympathy

I'm sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
~ Richard Siken
Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
~ Richard Siken
I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony
~ Richelle Mead
He shook his head. "No. Because there's no one else out there who understands you like I do." I waited for more. "That's it? You're not going to elaborate on what that means?" Those green eyes held me. "I don't think I need to.
~ Richelle Mead
I'm glad you're better," he said. His mouth sounded like it was almost in my hair, just above my my ear. "When I saw you fall..." "You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.
~ Richelle Mead
He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.
~ Richelle Mead
It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.
~ Richelle Mead
My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.
~ Richelle Mead
I had no sympathy for him and still haven't. That old saw about "To understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
there used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called diminished capacity and not guilty by reason on insanity. These concepts would bewilder a Loonie. In Luna City a man would necessarily be of diminished mental capacity to even think about rape; to carry one out would be the strongest possible proof of insanity - but among Loonies such mental disorders would not gain a rapist any sympathy. loonies do not psychoanalyze a rapist; they kill him. Now. Fast. Brutally.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It's all right,' he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. 'It's all right, believe me.
~ Robert Bloch
Mrs. Bartello opened the screen wider, her eyes bunching with sorrow. "I'm sorry. You don't know. I'm sorry. Donna passed away." Holman felt himself slow as if he had been drugged; as if his heart and breath and the blood in his veins were winding down like a phonograph record when you pulled the plug. First Richie, now Donna. He didn't say anything, and Mrs. Bartello's sorrowful eyes grew knowing. She
~ Robert Crais
When the armor's gone from you, you'll feel the pain of others too.
~ Robert Fisher
It is a great folly to hope that other men will harmonize with us; I have never hoped this. I have always regarded each man as an independent individual, whom I endeavored to understand with all his peculiarities, but from whom I desired no further sympathy. In this way have I been enabled to converse with every man, and thus alone is produced the knowledge of various characters and the dexterity necessary for the conduct of life. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
~ Robert Greene
That they wanted to be anywhere but here was obvious—and something I could totally understand.
~ Keri Arthur
His little body convulsed in my arms with each sob.
~ Khaled Hosseini
He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.
~ Kim Edwards
his discomfort seemed to soften her, for when he met her eyes again, they were kind.
~ Kim Edwards
Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another's point of view.
~ Kiran Nagarkar
Jeg synes synd i dig, Åse, men fortryt ikke på at jeg ler når jeg ser dig, haha, du er så stiv og indtørket, du har vel ikke engang vand i skrævet. Jeg kunde hjelpe dig med en skjærv, men jeg vil ikke had dig på fingrene. Nei. Du er det som det ikke engang er navn på fra Gud, så ussel er du. Bli i freden!
~ Knut Hamsun
and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.
~ Koji Suzuki
to console the girl for the loss of her feathered friend.
~ L. Frank Baum
I am on-ly a ma-chine," said Tiktok. "I cannot be kind an-y more than I can be sor-ry or glad. I can on-ly do what I am wound up to do.
~ L. Frank Baum
Vocês que têm coração, podem sempre se guiar por ele, e nunca fazem mal aos outros. Mas eu não tenho coração, e por isso preciso tomar muito cuidado.
~ L. Frank Baum